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Swimming World Magazine October 1986 Issue
FEATURES
Siesta At The Fiesta by Karen Crouse and Mark Muckenfuss
The record book took a rest at this year’s World Championships in Madrid
as only a handful of competitors were able to realize their dreams . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Women’s Swimming by Mark Muckenfuss
The reign in Spain stays mainly in the GDR as the East German
women won all but three gold medals and set six world records . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Men’s Swimming by Karen Crouse
Not only did several pre-meet matchups fail to materialize, but for the
first time in world championship history, there were no world records . . . . . . . . . 34
Diving
Greg Louganis repeated as the men’s springboard and platform champion
while China’s female divers won their country’s first WC gold medals . . . . . . . . . 79
Synchro by Karen Crouse
Canada became the first country in 11 years to capture all
three world championship synchronized swimming titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Men’s Water Polo by Mark Muckenfuss
In one of the more exciting world championship finals ever, Yugoslavia
took four overtime periods to beat Italy for the gold medal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Women’s Water Polo by Mark Muckenfuss
For the first time ever, women’s water polo was granted an official
status at the world championships, and Australia captured the crown . . . . . . . . . . 88
DEPARTMENTS
Editorial Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The AquaZoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
U.S. Swimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Age Group Swimmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Self-coached Swimmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Newswave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Athletes Forum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
NISCA News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Off the Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
For the Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Vox Pop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Index to Advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
